In a Spin

With a throw of 14.73cm, Ella placed 4th in the Belconnen Region School Athletics Championships and made it through to the next round, the ACT State Champs. The winner, who threw 22.53m, did so by doing the spin while all the other competitors did standing throws. Ella was enchanted by this and exclaimed that if she made it through then she'd try and do the spin.

Sure enough, Ella practiced a few times mostly successfully completing the spin. And so on game day she had a plan...first throw she was going to do the spin. Depending on how that throw went, she would either repeat or go back to do a standing throw.

On the day, Ella managed to do three successful throws! Although Ella did three awesome throws, she was bitterly disappointed with the distance (a meter less than her PB) and her placing.